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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For Bachelard, what do primal images of nests and shells offer to a person?
(a) They suggest a return to the womb.
(b) They offer freedom to create poetry.
(c) They allow a person safe and pleasurable withdrawal into his corner.
(d) They offer a cure for claustrophobia.

2. Which statement does Bachelard determine is most indicative of attic fears?
(a) Attic fears take longer fade, and remain tentative and unknown.
(b) Attic fears may be reasoned away.
(c) Attic fears indicate childhood trauma.
(d) Attic fears indicate spiritual unrest.

3. What is a dream house for Bachelard?
(a) A house that exists only in the poetic mind.
(b) The largest house in the area.
(c) A house accessible only in dreams.
(d) A home one dreams of owning or a home one purchases and alters.

4. Using a metaphor, a happy household can be compared to what, according to the author?
(a) A child's drawing.
(b) A poem.
(c) A soul at peace.
(d) A flourishing nest.

5. How is a nest connected to the foliage of the forest according to the author?
(a) A nest is at the mercy of surrounding foliage during windstorms.
(b) Both inspire daydreaming and poetry.
(c) It is hidden by the foliage, and constructed from the foliage.
(d) Both are wonders of nature.

6. Memories and images of previous dwelling places converge where according to the author?
(a) Poetry.
(b) The imagination.
(c) The soul.
(d) The new house.

7. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?
(a) The hurricane.
(b) Animal life.
(c) Human existence.
(d) The storm cloud.

8. Bachelard realized his acquired knowledge in science was inadequate to understand what?
(a) The intricacies of architecture.
(b) The field of psychoanalysis.
(c) The real estate market.
(d) The poetic imagination.

9. What does Bachelard believe is an antidote for claustrophobia?
(a) Spending time away from one's house.
(b) Light colors.
(c) Dynamic houses that open back out to the universe.
(d) Stairways.

10. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?
(a) In criminal cellars.
(b) In dark attics.
(c) In the imagination.
(d) In childhood homes.

11. As explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what is the main benefit of a house?
(a) To create cities.
(b) To protect property.
(c) To define boundaries.
(d) To shelter daydreaming.

12. The author proposes that loving the space in a house that opens to anywhere is an example of what?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Poetic irony.
(c) Objective irony.
(d) Desire to move to a new house.

13. Many houses are structured in levels, as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .,"appealing to what sense?
(a) The sense of superiority.
(b) The sense of vertical rising.
(c) The sense of being closer to God.
(d) The sense of escape.

14. When should metaphor be used, in Bachelard's opinion?
(a) Rarely, only to add complexity to a poem.
(b) Frequently, to add color and variety to expression.
(c) Rarely, only when words are inadequate.
(d) Frequently, to stimulate creativity.

15. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?
(a) As a universal child from centuries earlier.
(b) As a warning of death.
(c) As a baby in a cradle.
(d) As a butterfly in a chrysalis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?

2. Bachelard wishes to distinguish between metaphor and what?

3. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?

4. As understood by Bachelard, a house features which two seemingly conflicting dimensions?

5. Poetic imagery is real, according to Bachelard, even though it is not subject to what?

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